I think this looks interesting. The article in the Radio Times for next week gives more information. It starts on Sunday 26 August, then Monday 27, followed by every Monday. The new trailer is more comprehensive.

Can’t say it looks promising, trying to be too clever for its own good even from the trailers.

I'm surprised that you can tell that much from the trailers.

But Jed Mercurio does have a habit of leading viewers down one path, and then doubling back and going somewhere where you least expect.

Well didn’t everyone? There’s a ‘bodyguard’ and a politician, and obviously some sort of plot, Keeley Hawes, more plotting, and iffy looking chaps in the corridors of power.

Can't see what's being too clever from that. But being familiar with much of Mercurio's later work, I'd be willing to bet that it's not as straightforward, even run of the mill, as you seem to be making out. It is a trailer after all, we should at least give it a chance to see how it pans out.

Looked in here hoping to see some useful info to save me googling it. Found virtually nothing here about it so had to google it any way. I think it looks like it might be quite good, will give it a try.

From BBC:
Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes star in Bodyguard, BBC One’s new contemporary thriller from the makers of Line Of Duty.
Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd (Madden), a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service.

When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Hawes), Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, could he become her biggest threat?

Can’t say it looks promising, trying to be too clever for its own good even from the trailers.

I'm surprised that you can tell that much from the trailers.

But Jed Mercurio does have a habit of leading viewers down one path, and then doubling back and going somewhere where you least expect.

Well didn’t everyone? There’s a ‘bodyguard’ and a politician, and obviously some sort of plot, Keeley Hawes, more plotting, and iffy looking chaps in the corridors of power.

Can't see what's being too clever from that. But being familiar with much of Mercurio's later work, I'd be willing to bet that it's not as straightforward, even run of the mill, as you seem to be making out. It is a trailer after all, we should at least give it a chance to see how it pans out.

I thought it looked like the usual, slick trailer that doesn't actually give much away except there's going to be a bit of plotting and probably some action and mysterious back-stories to be revealed. Call me a towering intellectual, but that doesn't seem especially 'clever' to me.

I like the look of this, and the cast, so I'll be putting in on my series record and hoping for the best.

Yes, Keeley Hawes is a great actress and if it's only half as good as Line of Duty, it will be worth watching. I just hope Gina McKee is not playing the same fragile, dreary monotonous character she usually plays.

Can’t say it looks promising, trying to be too clever for its own good even from the trailers.

I'm surprised that you can tell that much from the trailers.

But Jed Mercurio does have a habit of leading viewers down one path, and then doubling back and going somewhere where you least expect.

Well didn’t everyone? There’s a ‘bodyguard’ and a politician, and obviously some sort of plot, Keeley Hawes, more plotting, and iffy looking chaps in the corridors of power.

Can't see what's being too clever from that. But being familiar with much of Mercurio's later work, I'd be willing to bet that it's not as straightforward, even run of the mill, as you seem to be making out. It is a trailer after all, we should at least give it a chance to see how it pans out.

That’s the whole point I’m trying to make out it looks anything but ‘run of the mill’. The writers are trying to get too clever, and one day they will get so caught up in ‘the twisted, double crossing, nothing is as it seems’ plot, they won’t actually be able to do anything with it.

I think this looks interesting. The article in the Radio Times for next week gives more information. It starts on Sunday 26 August, then Monday 27, followed by every Monday. The new trailer is more comprehensive.

I like Richard Madden!

Just to say, I understood from the Radio Times online that episode 1 is on Sunday 26th, episode 2 on Monday 27th, then it's on every Sunday from episode 3 onwards. We'd better check that nearer the time (I'm sure they'll announce it at the end of episode 2).

I think this looks interesting. The article in the Radio Times for next week gives more information. It starts on Sunday 26 August, then Monday 27, followed by every Monday. The new trailer is more comprehensive.

I like Richard Madden!

Just to say, I understood from the Radio Times online that episode 1 is on Sunday 26th, episode 2 on Monday 27th, then it's on every Sunday from episode 3 onwards. We'd better check that nearer the time (I'm sure they'll announce it at the end of episode 2).

To expand upon that (having sorted out the dog's walk), we have seen all of (a) LoD, and all of Between The Lines, so have the benefit of hindsight.

At best we might have seen all of Bodyguards, and have only the merest hint of the plotlines within Bodyguard. Without seeing all of Bodyguard it is very difficult to even pose the question of similarity (beyond the initial premise).

Sorry for the confusion.

Anyhow, back on track, looking forward to any of Jed Mercurio's work, hope he doesn't let us down with this one.